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The Reciprocal Agreement of the Future
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in the Schickedanz case is a real watershed decision for the development industry in Ontario. The Schickedanz decision deals with the relatively new development vehicle known as the "common…
LEED Faces Growing Pains
Green building has taken off in Canada. Look no further than the Canada Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program as an example. Since its inception in December 2004, about 60 buildings have been…
Where The Rubber Meets The Road
The idea of laying a rubber sidewalk might sound more like a college prank than a serious endeavour by a city public works department, but a Toronto-based company is betting Canadian municipalities like Toronto will take to the idea like a…
Gimme Shelter
Sticky solutionDow Building Solutions has added Instastik Quik Set to its product line, with an improved cure time of three to seven minutes, compared to 20 to 30 minutes for the previous formula. Instastick is a single-component form and…
Building Small Creating Big
Several years back, reports architect Eric Gauthier of Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier architects (FABG), there was considerable consternation in Montreal's design community about the city's cultural future. The source of this soul…
$1-billion office towers to be built in Calgary
CALGARY -- Calgary-based Gibbs Gage Architects have designed the $1-billion Penny Lane towers, which will provide two million square feet of office space to downtown Calgary. The development manager for the project is real-estate firm Hines…
You Are Here
Two hours west of Toronto, the Niagara Escarpment knifes 725 kilometres through southern Ontario from Lake Erie north, forming a stiletto of land jutting into Georgian Bay known as the Bruce Peninsula. Along its rocky edges are…
New incentive program will reduce Toronto buildings’ power consumption
TORONTO -- The Building Owners and Managers Association of Toronto (BOMA) and the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) have launched a program which aims to save 150 megawatts (MW) of electricity in Toronto annually. The BOMA Toronto CDM Program,…
Illuminating Architecture
Paris is called the City of Light for the flair with which most of its historic monuments and many of its architectural gems are illuminated externally after dark.Then there is Vancouver, which isn't Paris, but in its own unassuming yet…
New Park at Lake Ontario
TORONTO -- Field Operations, a New York-based landscape architecture firm, has been commissioned by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (TWRC) to design a new 500-acre park on the shore of Lake Ontario in Toronto. The project,…